On Betsy DeVos’ visit

December 20, 2017

Thanks for the recent article on the visit of Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. Unfortunately you failed to mention her attack on public education. She visited a charter school in Fort Myers and when she visited three in Tallahassee, none were public.

It seems she will not set foot in any traditional public schools. She is promoting a $9 billion cut in federal spending on public schools. She has pushed for a federal school voucher program and tax funding of religious schools.

Her agenda includes no accountability standards for charter and for-profit schools. Voucher schools championed by DeVos can teach whatever they want, including creationism, racism, and sexism.

A policy that aimed to better protect victims of sexual assault on campus was rescinded by Betsy DeVos.